• Home
  • About
  • Events
  • Contact
  • Donate
  • Reflections & Prayers
BURNING BUSH FOREST CHURCH
  • Home
  • About
  • Events
  • Contact
  • Donate
  • Reflections & Prayers

Rewilding our Souls

An Ecological Lord's Prayer

9/15/2022

0 Comments

 
An Ecological Lord’s Prayer 

Our nurturing God, present in the entire cosmos, 
Blessed are your names: Life and Love.

May your way of love 
and your desire for life
be available to all creatures 
​
all lands, all waters, and skies.

Provide for us all that we need for life,
through healthy soil and water, 
abundant gardens, food forests, 
and regenerative agriculture.

Forgive us when we exploit the earth, 
over-fish the seas,
pollute the skies, and generally 
overstep healthy boundaries
with our neighbours. 
Move us into living
a way of peace that heals
the heart of all creation
and repairs the fabric of life.

Lead us away from greedy ways:
lives of consumerism and excess,
and deliver us from apathy and inaction. 

For we want to be faithful to your vision
of a life of kinship, reconciliation, and love.

Today and each new day, amen.

- Wendy Janzen
0 Comments

Day of Prayer for All Creation

9/1/2022

0 Comments

 
September 1st marks the first day of the liturgical "Season of Creation." This prayer was written in honour of this season that highlights our relationship with the natural world and the importance of widening the circle of our worship words and practices to include all creation.

We give thanks this day 
for the sun, moon, and stars,
lighting our way,
illuminating beauty, 
energizing all life.

We give thanks this day
for the ground beneath us,
solid rock and living soil,  
foundation and fertility,
supporting and sustaining.

We give thanks this day
for the water of life,
rain and rivers, 
oceans and glaciers,
flowing and hydrating.

We give thanks this day
for sky, air, and wind,
animating breath,
sacred interchange,
inspiring and connecting.

For all four elements and
the ways they work together,
for all creatures,
for all places,
for life and death,
we offer our deepest gratitude
to Creator of all.


Amen.

​- Wendy Janzen
0 Comments

    Author

    Reflections, poetry, prayers, photos, and resources  written by Wendy Janzen unless otherwise noted.
    ​
    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

    If you are an established church or institution, please consider making a donation when using these resources in addition to attribution. Thanks!

    Archives

    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    June 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    July 2018

    categories

    All
    Advent Prayers
    Autumn
    Blessings
    Confession
    Lament
    Lent Prayers
    Poetry
    Prayers General
    Psalms
    Reflections
    Spiritual Practice
    Spring
    Summer
    Thanksgiving
    Wild Lectionary
    Winter

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Home
  • About
  • Events
  • Contact
  • Donate
  • Reflections & Prayers